Welcome everybody to the tech beam ride home experience for Friday

February the 11th. This is the first time we're ever doing this on a Friday, so welcome.

It'll be very interesting for us actually as the host to sort of I guess get a sense for

whether participation will be higher or lower or whatever, but that's why we record this and share it out afterwards.

So, anyways, lots and lots of stuff going on.

I did, Brian, just want to sort of bring up something that's, you know, been circling

the interwebs lately because I think it's actually very, very important. It is somewhat related

to what we're going to be talking about later on today. By the way I should I guess say

hello to Brady Dale who's here with us joining us from Quadusk. He's been with us

the Defiant. Oh my god I'm know, okay, thank you. The defiant. Very important. And so the thing that I wanted to start with actually was a number of conversations that I've been having lately actually about of course

What's going on with Spotify and Joe Roggan I feel like this conversation has been like talked to death and so I don't want to rehash a lot of the stuff that's happened, but both as podcasters and as someone who actually I'm currently taking a course with Rob Reich about technology and ethics and AI and law.

And it's, you know, there's a lot of folks who are actually like

working at tech companies who are in this course

and are building these systems and are thinking about how to design and architects, you know, these, I don't know, filtration surfaces for lack of a better word.

And the thing that we've been talking about, and Brian, I'd love to sort of I don't know I guess get your your

take your reaction to this is whether we're entering into kind of a conversation

about algorithmic paternalism.

And essentially the concept is that these social networking

platforms have gotten so big and so powerful and they distribute so much

content so much information to so many people all over you know in the world and

and so on that it's they're they're almost like too dangerous and that we can't actually traffic in ideas

that that you know ultimately can and do harm people so I guess I wanted to get

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